Pavarotti to Play Four Dates in America

Published 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 23, 2003

Luciano Pavarotti has scheduled four concerts in March in the United States, his spokeswoman said.

The 67-year-old tenor will perform March 11 in Los Angeles. He also has concerts set in Portland, Ore., March 14; San Antonio, Texas, March 19; and Reno, Nev., March 23, his London-based spokeswoman, Terri Robson, said Thursday.

A Three Tenors concert with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra set for Jan. 5 previously had been rescheduled for Sept. 28 because Pavarotti's companion, Nicoletta Mantovani, was in the final weeks of her pregnancy.

Mantovani, 33, gave birth prematurely to a girl last week at a hospital in Bologna, Italy; a male twin was born dead. Pavarotti and Mantovani have been living together since 1996.

Pavarotti will play additional U.S. dates in the fall, Robson said.

He hasn't appeared in an opera performance since singing in Puccini's "Tosca" at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, in London last Jan. 22.

Pavarotti has said he intends to retire Oct. 12, 2005, his 70th birthday.